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A short tutorial on using nodes to enable specular shading to be baked to your texture image.

Need a particular material quickly? This site has hundreds of ready to use materials, there's even a few by me there. It's also a great resource for learning how to create Blender materials as you can examine exactly how each was done in the blend file.

Lots of good quality images, many that are already setup for use as textures.

Good selection of reference images across a wide range of subjects.

Lots of landscape reference pictures and a variety of other photos.

Massive collection of content, but it's not all suitable for commercial use. Remember to check the individual licenses if you see something you like.

Free stock photo site with a wide range of content

Probably the best source for free vector clipart, though the quality of drawings varies widely.

Good selection of ready to use textures. Also has links to tutorials for the major 3D packages and a 3D gallery.

Small selection of high quality textures just for car makers.

If you want to model a real life item, you'll need the blueprints. Lots of reference pictures for modeling use.

Good selection of textures and images including close ups of things like fabric seams and other hard to find items.

Many stock photos across a range of subjects. Pictures tend to be more artistic than reference, but I usually look here first as the quality is usually high.

Massive collection of content, but it's not all suitable for commercial use. Remember to check the individual licenses if you see something you like.

Large selection of field recordings, great for ambient effects

The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds

The Blender Installation Guide from Machinimatrix covers installing and configuring Blender and the Primstar scripts on Windows.

Creating sculpted Prims with Blender from Machinimatrix shows how to create a workman's helmet.

Creating Surface textures for sculpties with blender from Machinimatrix continues the workman's helmet by explaining how to create a texture for it.

Texturizing sculpties with multiple images from Machinimatrix continues the workman's helmet with an explanation of using multiple textures to add a logo.

This tutorial gives an introduction into the usage of the blender interface.
It covers the most basic functions for creating and modifying mesh objects.
The tutorial mainly adresses people, who are totally new to 3D content creation
tools in general and blender in particular.

After you have studied the tutorial you should be able to follow our subsequent
tutorials about using blender for creation of sculpted prims.

We show you, how you can use blender to create sculpted prims with high precision.
This tutorial will cover the basics of LOD (Level of detail) and show you how to
avoid the most common pitfall in sculptie creation.
We used blender 2.46 for all demonstration sequences

We show you, how you can use blender to create sculpted prims with high precision.
This tutorial will show you some techniques for building high precision sculpted prims.
We used blender 2.46 for all demonstration sequences.
As an example we have choosen the construction of a sculpted window frame
for a casino window front.

The tutorial describes how you can enable image processing with alpha-channels in blender.
In addition to that, we also show, how you can apply your own alpha-mask to your
sculpt-map for protection and for labeling your work. Note that the first part of the tutorial
applies to the Domino Design scripts, while the secnd part refers to the JASS-distribution
only.

a bit of fresh air is necessary. Let's go and make another cube, but now we make it almost perfect.

Make a closed cylinder using subsurf and Crease.

Lots of tutorials from installation to advanced techniques such as faking fur textures with baking particles.